Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:43:57 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, David Greenman <dg@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD/OS compatibility (was: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf .. Message-ID: <5303.921195837@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:24:48 PST." <19990311152448.A19522@best.com>
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> I think it is better to give people boxes which can be tweaked to the > max then for us to worry about BSDi compatibility. Well, more to the point, we shouldn't just fall over kicking the minute somebody installs us on a "server class" machine that we claim represents our bread-and-butter market. Something similar to this (>64MB memory detection) is what cost us a major magazine performance review against Linux and BSD/OS when we ended up getting tested with 64MB of memory and the other OSes saw and used the full 128MB, skewing the benchmark results against us for the high-load case. That really sucked and we don't need that happening again, a whole lot more than we need to run a very diminishing number of BSD/OS binaries. Most ISVs appear, sadly, to be rapidly abandoning that market and BSDI itself isn't all too healthy these days. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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